Having someone annoyed brandish them in private does not imply threat; it looks more like venting to me, especially since we already voted restraint for Saki in charm use.
I'd be honestly more worried if she kept them folded; that would be implying things like Repartee Baffles.
Even using Unobtrusive Repartee Baffles, the claws and spike are
visible weapons. They don't radiate magic, and it isn't obvious that charm fuckery is going on when they're actually used on a victim, since that's what's URB hides, but the weapon parts of the charms themselves are still extended and on display.
Now, if you want to hide the weapon(s), that's certainly possible! It'd be a separate "Slight of Hand" check that would fall under Stealth/Larceny, and opposed by Awareness/Investigation, but it'd be possible to pull off thanks to URB hiding all the blatant Bullshit Magic warning signs.
BB is empty, so no collateral damage to worry about, and it's probably the most Essence-rich area in the Nowhereverse, so it's home ground.
Any parahuman who is imbecilic enough to attempt kidnapping him is likely to get the Lot's wife/ Manosque Viridian treatment.
After he leaves a few pillars of salt lying around, other people will take the hint.
For a moment I forgot who Manosque Viridian was. Then I remembered that he was a Dragonblooded that used Iris to
shut down every manse in the Realm at once, but then had his entire army
fall into the sky because Iris got fed up with him. (An amusing note is that the official Realm calendar says that Viridian's forces were thwarted by the Realm's armies, of course.)
Iris was fine with a bit of a walkabout before, since he needed to get out and see the land, he trusted Taylor to track him down, and he didn't feel like wiping out the surrounding countryside and its heroes/inhabitants just to defend himself.
He is no longer fine with such distractions or delays.
faster if she climbs to angels eighty and redlines it.
I'm guessing this is some kind of aeronautical reference? 80,000 feet? Pointing 80 degrees up instead of a more gradual 45-degree climb?
And I just remembered that Iris acts as a repeater for SoPA.
So Iris is never alone or unguarded as long as there are invertebrates/animals/SOPA drones in his general area.
As long as Taylor never runs out of both essence and willpower while he's outside of her SoPA radius, sure.
@Gromweld, are you willing to comment on how much power Iris is getting now, and does he need to be in SoPA range (or did E4 somehow change that rule?).
He would be getting more power due to Essence 4, yes, but that boost is impacted by SoPA's need to spend essence to repair itself. It's a net loss at the moment for him, hence his comment about reduced essence respiration.
I'm suddenly reminded of that DaVinci's Notebook song.
Link?
Alright, getting to work on Character Sheet updates. I'll post when I'm done.
